Give Me Liberty

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Chapter 6
Norton Media Library
Give Me Liberty! An American History Second
EditionVolume 1
by Eric Foner
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I. Democratizing freedom

• A. Challenges to hereditary privilege, fixed
  status
• B. Expansion of political democracy
• 1. Popular engagement in public debate
• 2. Rolling back of property qualifications
• 3. One-house vs. two-house legislatures
• 4. The new constitutions
• 5. Radical patriots and conservative patriots

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II. Toward religious toleration

• Broadening of religious toleration
• B. The founders and religion
• 1. Separating church and state
• a. Thinking behind
• b. Implementation of
• 2. Jefferson and religious liberty
• Revolution and the churches
• 1. Challenges to church authority
• 2. Boost to influence of religion

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III. Defining economic freedom

• A. Sharpening of the line between free labor and
  slavery
• 1. Decline of intermediate forms of unfree labor
• a. Indentured servitude
• b. Apprenticeship
• 2. Causes of decline
• B. Points of consensus
• 1. Excessive dependency and inequality
  subversive to a free
• republic
• 2. America well-poised to foster liberty and
  equality
• C. Points of debate
• 1. Equality of condition vs. equality of
  opportunity
• 2. Regulation of prices vs. free trade

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IV. The limits of liberty

• A. Colonial loyalists
• 1. Social profiles
• 2. Motivations
• 3. Experiences
• a. Suppression and assaults
• b. Seizure of property
• c. Banishment or voluntary departure
• d. Gradual fading of stigma

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IV. The limits of liberty

• B. Indians
• 1. Accelerated dispossession, pre-revolutionary
• 2. Wartime dilemmas and disruptions
• a. Futile efforts at neutrality
• b. Divided allegiances
• c. Losses and hardships
• 3. Accelerated dispossession, post-independence

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V. Slavery and the Revolution

• A. Use of slavery in rhetoric of revolution
• 1. As metaphor for political status of colonists
• 2. As direct critique of slavery
• 3. Alleged hypocrisy of slaveholders crying
  slavery
• B. Obstacles to abolition
• 1. Importance of slave system in the colonies
• 2. Perception of slavery as basis for white
  freedom
• 3. Conception of property rights as essential to
  liberty

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V. Slavery and the Revolution (contd)

• C. Impetus for abolition
• 1. Growing debate over slavery in America
• 2. Black initiatives against slavery
• a. Invocations of freedom as universal right
• b. Legal action
• c. Escape
• D. British emancipators
• 1. Invitations to slaves to escape to British
  lines
• a. Lord Dunmores proclamation
• b. Henry Clintons proclamation
• 2. Magnitude of slave response
• 3. Long-term outcomes for slaves who escaped to
  British

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V. Slavery and the Revolution (contd)

• E. The first emancipation
• 1. Curbs on slave importation
• 2. Upper South manumissions
• 3. Abolition in northern states
• F. Emergence of free black communities

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VI. Women and the Revolution

• A. Participation in revolutionary cause
• B. Limits on access to American freedom
• 1. Maintenance of legal subordination of women
• 2. Male supremacy as element of revolutionary
  thought
• 3. View of women as wives and mothers, unfit for
  citizenship
• C. Improvements in status of women
• 1. Ideology of republican motherhood
• 2. Perception of women as trainers of citizens,
  meriting education
• 3. Notion of companionate marriage
• D. Changes in structure of family life

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VII. Repercussions of American independence
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